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How many times have you been accused of failing to ‘read round the subject’? How often have you been faced with having to read what seems to you a massive volume? How should you approach this task? This chapter is concerned with the nature of secondary sources and the ways in which you can approach them successfully and efficiently.
‘To expect a man to retain everything he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten’
(Schopenhauer, On Reading and Books)
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© 1986 Richard Brown and Christopher W. Daniels
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Brown, R., Daniels, C.W. (1986). Secondary Sources. In: Learning History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07793-9_6
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